AAAARGH!!!!!!

I CANNOT BELIEVE I JUST SPENT 2.5 HOURS ON A JOB APPLICATION THAT CAN'T GO THRU BECAUSE I'M NOT USING INTERNET EXPLORER!!!! I HATE MICROSOFT AND REFUSE TO USE THEIR STUPID BROWSER AND CAN'T BELIEVE COMPANIES WOULD LIMIT THEIR APPLICANT FIELD AGAINST NON IE USERS! IT'S COMPLETELY LUDICROUS!!!

at the very least, they should say from the beginning that firefox won't work and allow me to save the frustration and time of applying for their dumb job when my application won't go thru.

AAAARGH!!!!!!!!!!

Dear Kenexa,
In this day and age when it is clear that Microsoft no longer has the market cornered on internet browsers, I find it extremely irritating and frustrating that your online job application service for BB&T bank does not allow me to use Mozilla Firefox. I have worked on my job application for 2.5 hours, only to have a non-error hinder me from proceeding with my application. I called the Kenexa Recruiter Help Desk and spoke with an impatient and frustrated woman, who after a few minutes of "not understanding" me, was finally able to tell me the source of my error was simply in using Mozilla Firefox, a web browser I find highly superior to Internet Explorer. I think it is completely absurd that your computer programmers cannot design a program that will work within Mozilla Firefox. At the very least, you should put some sort of warning on the first few pages of the application that using Internet Explorer is mandatory to save us Firefox users time and frustration.
Thank you.
Dianne Laird

"the house church..."

"The house church is a way of living the Christian life communally in ordinary homes through supernatural power. It is the way redeemed people live locally. It is the organic way disciples follow Jesus together in everyday life. Since the redeemed no longer belong to themselves, they adopt a mainly communal, rather than purely private and individualistic, lifestyle. House churches emerge when truly converted people stop living their own life for their own ends, start living in a community life according to the values of the Kingdom of God, and start to share their life and resources with those Christians and not-yet-Christians around themselves.

"It is the result of the conviction that we do not only experience Jesus Christ and His Spirit in sacred rooms dedicated for that express purpose, but in the midst of life. In that sense, the organic house church is the death bed of egoism, and therefore the birthplace of the church. True community starts where individualism ends. Art Katz, a Messianic Jew who lived in community much of his life, says:

"'Community life pulverizes you old ego in the power of the Spirit of God, and rescues you from just living a miserable private life, where after loving each other during a one-hour worship service a week we rush home.... We need to start to function as a part of the fellowship of the redeemed. As the redeemed, we do not go home after a service, we are at home with each other.'"

Houses that Change the World, Wolfgang Simson, p79-80.

smitten

to impress favorably; charm; enamor

i just got off the phone with an old friend. "smitten" is the only word that came to mind when i hung up - grinning ear to ear, sighing with delight. no, i'm not in love, nor do i have a crush on my friend.

really, i'm in love with the God who redeems, with the God who is so in love with us. to talk with this friend, to hear him speak and describe his life, he is a completely different person today than he was when i met him, almost 6 years ago. God has worked such amazing miracles of transformation and redemption, it is ridiculous!

this God i serve is truly an amazing God.

hypocrisy

i am quite a good hypocrite when i want to be, when it's convenient for me. and that's even the nature of my hypocrisy.

i see that my generation is very consumeristic and me-centered. we generally are just looking out for number 1. whatever is convenient for me, meets my needs, sounds fun to me, that's what i'll do. don't ask me to give of myself, don't ask me to commit and stick it out when it's hard and ugly. don't ask me to show up when i don't feel like it.

i don't "receive well" from the leadership at that church, so i'll show up on occasion to hang out with my friends that attend there, but don't ask me to get involved, or even commit to showing up every week. i'll go when it's convenient for me.

i don't like some of the people that are involved at that ministry, so i'll show up and only talk to my friends that i already have. don't expect me to go out of my way to love people by just having a friendly conversation.

i don't think that activity is very fun, so even tho this ministry that i'm involved in is planning that activity as part of the fellowship of that ministry, i won't go. fellowship when it isn't fun is not worth it to me.

i'll show up at this Bible study because i like the theological discussions, but i don't want to open up about what is really going on inside my heart. don't expect me to be vulnerable and open, that's not what i do.

i feel like sleeping in today, so i won't go to church. i feel like watching tv tonight, so i won't go to Bible study. i would rather play on facebook than go serve dinner at the homeless shelter when it's my church's night (just once this month) to serve.


Matthew 16:24 (ESV)
Then Jesus told his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me."


Jesus, forgive me.

craziness in initiation....

definitely some thoughts to ponder... :-P :-D

finding organic church by frank viola (a pdf, 15p)

at church, the last sunday of the year, we had a time for people to speak about the past year, what God had done and what they learned and were thankful for. one guy got up and spoke about how he had learned so much, but couldn't describe it, or quantify it, or explain it. he just knew that the past year had held a lot of lessons that had changed him and were changing him, and he was excited about it, even if he couldn't verbalize it. i definitely agreed with him, but wasn't so excited about it.

now i think i see a glimpse of something that will put the past 2 years in perspective. well, the lessons of the last 6 years, really. and i'm quite excited about it. ;-)

All Your ways and all Your thunder
Got me in a haste runnin for cover
Where we gonna go from here?
Where we gonna go from here?